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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...
PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all

All ideas

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Provide the ability to use custom editor for simulation input data

Simulation created with a custom data provider often use input data set in the definition of the simulation. They are used to control the behavior of the data provider during the simulation. This input might have values that comes from another ser...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Need Content Manager OnDemand to support IMDSV2

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Delivered

Content Navigator should support uploading large files to P8 without completely storing them into ICN container memory

There is a business need to upload certain files (larger than 2GB, up to 9GB) through ICN into the P8 repository. This does not happen often, so licensing Aspera and installing a whole infrastructure is not worth the effort for these few files a y...
10 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

CP4BA 22.0.2 (FCN 5.5.10) on Containers implemented readOnlyRootFilesystem, there are some cases where this feature should be able to be disabled

We have a customer that uses Dynatrace OneAgent that does code insertions on pods to install its agent. This was preventing FileNet Operator from being able to bring up application pods on an AWS EKS cluster due to the readOnlyRootFilesystem.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

CMIS and ICN in combination with Application Edition Manager (AEM) / Correct adjustment of Class Loader Order settings

When using Application Edition Manager (AEM) in Websphere Application Server in combination with a deployment of IBM CMIS and IBM Content Navigator, the Class Loader Order settings are incorrectly adjusted. This results that CMIS and ICN are not w...
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Improve Fastpath parsing performance

Rulesets with large decision tables and using Fastpath execution modes are taking a very long time to parse during a deployment. Improve parsing performance for rulesets with large decision tables using Fastpath execution modes.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Disabling of Drag and drop feature from the IBM BAW desktop

In order to ensure security, it may be necessary to restrict access to uploaded documents for certain users. However, users can utilize the drag-and-drop feature from the BAW desktop to upload documents. It would be advantageous to have the option...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

We want to disable the BC UI project export option via application role permissions

We want to restrict project export option to a set of users who are assinged read-only application roles, who can just view the rules but can't change anything today. To enforece better security, we want to restrict export project for set of users.
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered

To support installing multiple TOS with operator for baw container version

For case management, the case solution max property number is limited by database table max support column number, e.g. Oracle table max column is 1000. In our current situation, a case solution usually has hundreds properties, then one TOS can on...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

To support installing multiple TOS with operator/CR for BAW container version

For case management, the case solution max property number is limited by database table max support column number, e.g. Oracle table max column is 1000. In our current situation, a case solution usually has hundreds properties, then one TOS can on...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered